Farley Jackmaster Funk* ‎– Funkin With The Drums Again

Farley is the one Dj that I would stop whatever I was doing on a Friday night in Chicago, run home, cut on WGCI, sit there and wait for the Tarzan yell signifying Farley's House mix was about to begin and hit record on my tape player for an hour of pure House Music bliss.
Ok... I originally bought this record in Evanston, Il at Rose Records and got the red vinyl version. It had a little scratch on it and I wanted to return it for another but never got around to it.
Well... damn near 30 years later I still got the same red vinyl record and it still sounds as good as the day I bought it. All the tracks on it I really like. Not to everyones tast nowadays but it was the sht back then in '86.
I wonder how much the red vinyl record costs? I'd never sell it.

Among the first House EPs released, "Funkin' With The Drums Again" appeared when House Music genre was known basically in one city in the World: Chicago.

For "Jack'n The House", Farley Jackmaster Funk inclued a bassline with part of the melody of Kraftwerk's "It's More Fun To Compute" with different timbres, and the combination of a strange "Ho-ow-a-ow-se" samples goin' on repeatedly with a sinister synthesizer melody of prolonged notes. "Jack'n The Trax" keeps the same synth melodies and the "Wooow-Ooww" vocal samples histeria, though on a more minimal concept (the Kraftwerk based synths of the first tune are absent, and the elements in general are reduced). The fragmented vocal samples that appear on the two first tracks go alone with the beats on "Clap'n The Pella", the last tune of A side (by the way a very powerful DJ tool used by artists such as Jeff Mills who overlapped it with Adonis' "No Way Back" in one of his DJ sets at WJLB, 1986).

The other side begins with "Oh My God", a strange House music which samples an industrial/EBM vocal quote from the eighties, probably Dirk Ivens from Klinik (a Belgian band that released the LP "Sabotage" on the same year of 1985).

The most beautiful tune of this EP, "Farley Knows House" prenounces the upcoming House spirit with an amazing atmosphere based on melody and percussion combination. The epilogue "Farley Farley" explores the author's sample techniques ad nauseam, another tune made to be a DJ tool.

Dark , very dark Ep. some of those titles are only rhythm tracks or DJ tools. Others are raw minimal tunes, but with a very strong vibe. Tracks like "Farley Knows House" defined the dark side of House Music made in Chicago. We can say 90's techno wouldn't be the same without EPs like "Funkin With The Drums Again". Absolutely a big EP in Dance Music sound evolution.